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WMYF 1380 (NH Seacoast) to ESPN

I'm surprised they didn't put sports on 930, since 930 and 96.7 run just about all the same programming, except in mornings and the Sox. 1380 was One on One sports in the past, and never did much... I"m sure the demos weren't good, but it was probably a very loyal audience listening to WMYF. I guess this is good news for 1450 WNBP, which will pick up some listeners on the fringes.
 
My guess would be it was all about rights deals. I see they have the Boston Bruins I wonder if they also have somthing else in the works. My guess is the rest is just to wrap around that and someone probably already had an existing contract with Fox in the area.
 
Clr Chnl has flipped some other properties to ESPN like AM 1300 in New Haven which had been
prog talk
http://www.espnradio1300.com/main.html

ESPN is on (IIRC) 1250 Manchester NH & 900 Nashua NH ("The Game") as well. Fox Sports
is on Big Jab 1490 in Portland ME (45 mi. or so from Ports.) and WBZ-FM overnights (57 mi or so
away?) I don't know of any other Fox Sports stations around, who knows. ESPN does have some
play by play of sports etc
 
raccoonradio said:
Clr Chnl has flipped some other properties to ESPN like AM 1300 in New Haven which had been
prog talk
http://www.espnradio1300.com/main.html
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Before Progressive Talk it was FOX Sports Radio. 640 in Springfield (Westfield) used ESPN in AM Drive and FOX the rest of the day before CC LMAd it to WFCR and eventually selling it outright to WFCR.
 
raccoonradio said:
ESPN is on (IIRC) 1250 Manchester NH & 900 Nashua NH ("The Game") as well. Fox Sports
is on Big Jab 1490 in Portland ME (45 mi. or so from Ports.) and WBZ-FM overnights (57 mi or so
away?) I don't know of any other Fox Sports stations around, who knows. ESPN does have some
play by play of sports etc
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There's also 2 part time affiliates around the Maine/NH border as well...95.9 in Saco, which runs WEEI as well and WTSN in Dover, NH.
 
raccoonradio said:
You might like the oldies mix of WXEX 1540 too but that's oldies, not so much "standards"
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The last time I heard WXEX-1540, it was the total complement/opposite of 'standards'. WXEX is a late 60's/70's/early 80's oldies station. Seemingly, any standards station playlist from that era (Carpenters, Engelbert, etc) is not on WXEX. It's almost like a complete music library of that era was divided up between a standards station and WXEX, where WXEX only plays the half (the heavier half) that they got from that division. But that's a good thing, as that makes WXEX different, and they sound good.
 
JIBGUY said:
Bob, I heard a liner on WJIB the other day, a male voice (not yours), that said; "We hope you're listening in AM stereo". I'd love to be listening to WJIB in AM stereo, but it's no longer possible!
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raccoonradio said:
Clr Chnl has flipped some other properties to ESPN like AM 1300 in New Haven which had been
prog talk
http://www.espnradio1300.com/main.html
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CC's WPOP (1410) Hartford has been ESPN for years; it had been carrying One On One Sports/Sporting News Radio. I find it odd that CC doesn't put the programming it syndicates on all of its stations. Maybe the name recognition, branding benefits and play-by-play rights that affiliation with ESPN Radio bring make it a more appealing product to advertisers. I wonder how CC decides which markets it wants to bring ESPN Radio into and which it wants to bring Fox Sports Radio into.
 
DCBurns said:
Who Cares. Crappy signal that can't be heard for more than 5 miles around. Big deal. I hate wasted AM signals...
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How is it a wasted signal if it's a "crappy signal" that can't be heard for more than 5 miles around? And it's a big deal because CC is running a format of a competitior.

If anything, wasted AM signals are the ones that sign on once a year, just to keep the license from getting deleted. Because the owners have no clue what to do with the proportie and don't want to invest a penny into an already dead medium. Unless your a 50,000 watt Blowtorch in a major city or you have deep pockets and profits aren't a goal, your best choice with your AM signal is to sell or go dark within the next 10 years, so I don't think this is a wasted AM signal at all.
 
Thanks for the reply. They are just running it on auto pilot, no one will be actively selling the station, probably zilch for promotion. That to me is a wasted signal. I do not agree at all with you on AM radio. I have run several successful local AM stations and they made money. And, I am doing it again, taking over the reins of another 'Live & Local' Station. It will be successful because of what it is. Ton's of local content, compelling talk and news. Just look at Newburyport, MA and what Pete Falconi and Carl Strueb have done with WNBP. I understand that 1540 in Exeter is doing well too. I look at these stations as an opportunity....but I guess these stations are what you make them. You can run them the right way or just blare senseless noise and take the tax write off or as you prefer, turn em off.
 
raccoonradio said:
Flipped the other day from standards to ESPN...
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For the record, they are calling themselves "AM 1380, The Sports Animal," and in typical CC fashion, they are recycling the same Mr. Potato Head-resembling logo that they already use for their "Sports Animal" stations in markets like Tampa and Cincinnati...
 
I feel badly, not so much for the loss of Standards but because there is virtually no soft music station available on the radio anymore. 94.9 WHOM Mt. Washington-Portland has over time become more uptempo and has eliminated most 70s soft hits, although I suppose that still is the softest station on the dial. 98.7 WBYY Somersworth started out as a very soft AC but gradually became a standard AC station. 95.7 WZID has also morphed from Soft AC to a more uptempo, more contemporary presentation, where Nickelback and Pink are core artists now.

If you want to hear the Soft AC that was common 20 years ago on the radio, you're pretty much out of luck. Almost no where on the dial can you hear the soft hits of:

Neil Diamond...Carpenters...Barry Manilow...Anne Murray...Fifth Dimension...Dionne Warwick...Barbra Streisand...Bette Midler...Air Supply...Olivia Newton-John...Tony Orlando...Captain & Tennille...John Denver...Kenny Rogers...Gordon Lightfoot...Carole King...Linda Ronstadt...Joni Mitchell...Judy Collins...Cat Stevens...George Benson...

Need I go on? Uptempo Oldies are still common, even though a few years ago Oldies stations were dropping like flies. Programmers found out if you blend in some 80s titles, you can still play the Uptempo Oldies of the 60s and 70s. But nothing too soft.

So goodbye WMYF and all the soft music that the station still aired.


Gregg
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That's why I liked the Boxford pirate that was on 87.9 That's what he played.
He still streams ( I don't know the web address ).
 
Gregg said:
If you want to hear the Soft AC that was common 20 years ago on the radio, you're pretty much out of luck. Almost no where on the dial can you hear the soft hits of:

Neil Diamond...Carpenters...Barry Manilow...Anne Murray...Fifth Dimension...Dionne Warwick...Barbra Streisand...Bette Midler...Air Supply...Olivia Newton-John...Tony Orlando...Captain & Tennille...John Denver...Kenny Rogers...Gordon Lightfoot...Carole King...Linda Ronstadt...Joni Mitchell...Judy Collins...Cat Stevens...George Benson...
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I was going to say that Sirius XM has plenty of that music, but this month that is not the case. The Bridge, which programs '70s mellow rock, has been pre-empted for the entire month by "Band on the Run Radio" a sort of legal payola channel bought and paid for by Paul McCartney and his connections, while Escape, which is the closest thing to a Beautiful Music station we have (yes, closer than WJIB), is hosting Radio Hanukkah -- a mishmash of music and storytelling -- for, oddly, the next nine days and nights. I guess this tells you the low regard in which the Sirius XM programming people hold the subscribers who like soft AC. I bet their consultants are telling them, "They're old. Too set in their ways. They'll never buy a new radio or accessory widget. Pre-empt their channels at will."
 
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